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Leading Gaza surgeon Adnan Al-Bursh dies in Israeli prison
A prominent surgeon in Gaza has died in an Israeli prison after being held for more than four months, according to Palestinian prisoners’ groups, which decried his death as part of a “systematic targeting” of health care workers.
Rashid Khalidi’s speech to Columbia students
This brilliant speech yesterday by Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University, on the cowardice of the university administration in calling in police to arrest students will be cited throughout history -– and will inspire generations of students for decades to come.
The Distortion of Campus Protests over Gaza
How the Right Has Weaponized Antisemitism to Distract from Israel’s War
Featured image: Message projected on the building from which the students were violently evicted on the evening of April 30 by the New York police.
The People’s University of Providence
“There are no universities left in Gaza,” read one sign from Brown’s encampment for Palestine, which officially came to a close yesterday. The sign faced University Hall, an administrative building, and telegraphed one of the many themes of the encampment: that divestment, among many other, perhaps more pressing, issues, is also an educational issue. Because Brown has repeatedly shooed away calls for divestment under the powerful banner of being A University—a title that supposedly carries nonpolitical implications—the eighty-some students who have chosen to pitch tents in full violation of student-conduct policies are making a point with their teach-ins. If Brown wants to make this about education, the students will make this about education.
Violent clashes erupt at UCLA between pro-Israel and pro-Palestine supporters
Chaos erupted late into the night at UCLA’s campus as pro and anti-Israel protesters clashed in scenes that escalated into ‘all-out brawls’, including an incident where a firework was thrown into a crowd of people. The violence began when a group of pro-Israel activists arrived on campus to dismantle the anti-Israel and pro-Palestine camp.
Al Jazeera’s Rob Reynolds joins us live now from Los Angeles to discuss the latest updates.
Letter to Columbia President Minouche Shafik
You are keeping no one safe, except for your donors, trustees, and the university’s endowment.
By Robin D. G. Kelley, Gary B. Nash Professor of American History at UCLA
I’m a UCLA professor. Why didn’t the administration stop last night’s egregious violence?
The university should have anticipated Tuesday night’s chaos — but security personnel were nowhere to be found
Carlo Rovelli: ‘We can be open without collaborating in every massacre’
An interview with the physicist as students and professors call for an end to dual-use research with Israel. ‘Accusations of anti-Semitism are a cudgel wielded by the Israeli government at every turn against anyone who criticizes it.’
Statement in solidarity with student protests for Gaza
We, the undersigned organizations, stand in solidarity with the students nationwide and globally who are bravely protesting in encampments and otherwise to condemn Israel’s ongoing bombardment of Gaza–actions which human rights organizations, a federal U.S. court, and the International Court of Justice have said “plausibly” constitute genocide.